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I can look back to a time when writing poetry was one of the main ways that I had for making sense of the world around me. The creative output from this time in my life actually staggers me – although sometimes I cringe at the quality – I was certainly prolific. I thought I’d [...]
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Since the beginning of March this year I have been podcasting my short stories/fables/fairytales as “Stories from the Borders of Sleep“. It has been pretty exciting to see the listnership grow as we (that’s me and my producer, Tim, and Illustrator, Robyn) have started to put new episodes out on a fortnightly basis. There are [...]
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“Why do you write?” someone asked me. I took two minutes to give them my pat answer, which has to do with books and stories having practically raised and educated me and, above all, comforted me, and how, as “we read to know we are not alone”, I write in order to reach out and [...]
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When I gave up working in a stable, full-time job this time last year in order to pursue a creative streak, I thought I had a good idea of where that would take me. I had a plan to write, commercially, and grow a freelancing business as quickly as possible. However, as soon as I [...]
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I’m proud to announce the launch of my new podcast, “Stories from the Borders of Sleep.” This project has been taking up a large amount of my time over the past few weeks and I offer it by way of an excuse for being absent from this blog for a while. Since November last year, [...]
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Pick up any magazine with a few feature articles in it and play “spot the cliché“. We all use clichés and often without noticing them; they all too easily pass into professional copy. Is this sloppy writing or a stylistic conformity to idiom? Either way, here’s an exercise to hone your writerly chops: Get your [...]
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